2008 Indy Car Championship Chicagoland Photo Finish!!!!

[wittisy]

Wheldon had a exciting 3-wide challenge in the race,how exciting :(,now we cant see it

[Lights0ut1109]

That's some championship celebration -sarcasm-

[TittyTittyBangBangXX]

What he didn't win?? WHOOOOA HOLY SHIT!!!!!

[TittyTittyBangBangXX]

SCOTTY!!!!!

[KingCuervo88]

"You can't have asked for a better scenario. Dixon and Castronevas 1 & 2 in the points running 1 & 2 in the race." Stewart and Edwards "Bitch please."

[Altamonteric]

@KingCuervo88 Indycar used the same point system they had used all year, while the NASCAR fight was set up by the chase.

Was a good title fight, but you can't make that comparsion.

[nfsdude911]

2:25 6th place R.I.P. Dan Wheldon

[jowen2c]

i didnt see who won!

[19pizzapuff]

This is bullshit! The target car did not win! Why are they saying it did?

[Juihi2]

@19pizzapuff Initally the results said that Scott won, but shortly after they changed it to Helio

[clixaccounts00]

what does that tell yah!



[nascarmario23]

LMAO "You are the winner of the race."

"AHAHAHA No way I knew it!!!" LOL

[amarritza]

@person5598 The new head of Chicagoland Speedway said recently that Indycar should be back for 2012 season. (Thank God.)

[diecastreveiws]

FUCK DIXON CASTRONEVAS THAT!!!!

[JasonMann8]

press 5 to skip to the finish

[person5598]

i cant believe indy car got rid of chicagoland...

[xXxMartin96xXx]

is this a joke? helio castroneves won, who the fuck sayd he was on second?

[carbonfiber1995]

Why tthe indy cars look like the F!cars??

[imallfordabulls]

Well we just found out that Helio Castroneves...THIS WEEK ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL....WTF? EPIC FAIL!!!!!

[erwinruys]

why the hell is nascar popular in America??

[b00mYou]

@erwinruys Because it originated in America and NASCAR for the most part is mostly American drivers for the exception of a few here and there who have or does race in NASCAR. Indycar is a mixed-nationality sport since it has many different nationalities that run in it.

[10869253]

i like the zooming sounds

[ryannewman4life1]

indy is bullshit 1 you dont bumpdraft 2 if you hit something ur out 3 the rules r to fucking complex thats why Nascar is whipping their ass in rateings

[coltcub64]

@ryannewman4life1, Bump drafting at 220+ could kill somebody pal.

[FedericoEsse]

haw many mph? and rpm max?

[FedericoEsse]

haw many mph/h?

[nathankrug]

can't compare indy to NASCAR! This would be considered a typical sunday in NASCAR!

[dwidwi]

@nathankrug Of course NASCAR would throw a yellow flag on the last lap and have 5 restarts after the last lap to get it that close.

[nathankrug]

@dwidwi Throw 5 cautions? what? NASCAR has a way better ruling system. today's indy 500 is under review. There's a chance that Hildebrand will actually get the checkered flag because he was the leader at the time of the caution EVEN THOUGH he caused the caution to come out. How F'ed up is that. Danica said today that people ask her all the time if the indy 500 is the only race she runs every year because nobody follows the sport!!!!!!!! That's why she's movin on to......NASCAR!

[coltcub64]

@nathankrug, The ending was never in doubt Barnhart said. They said they never considered taking the win away from Wheldon. He was ahead when the yellow came out. If you pass under yellow in Nascar, its the same thing as in IndyCar.

[Khabibulin3935]

I had seats right in the finish line and my bro shot the best picture EVER of this finish.

[greengrass313]

@Khabibulin3935 What a picture that would be! I had seats in between turn 4 and the finish, and even from there I could tell that Helio won it.

[Khabibulin3935]

@greengrass313 yeah, we knew helio won too. It was a rediculas finish though to.

[leighrowden70]

Foot to the floor on a banked oval track! Going anti-clockwise!!

stuck in top gear going round and round like a stupid dog chasing its own tail!!

Its MICKEY MOUSE RACING!!!! (ONLY IN AMERICA)!!!! : p

[palkomike23]

@leighrowden70 hmmm in F1, theres like 2 passes the whole race, everyone is single file, road courses suck. Indycar, have the seats are filled, your face of F1 left for NASCAR (since Nascar looks easy he should rack up wins) and he only has 1. Cant make contact with another car or it will explode. I call that boring.

[MurphyMonster]

@palkomike23 you don't like explosions?

[F35FLYER]

I remember watching this live and still today I think GOD DAMN IT when they cross the line. However it is easy to see that Helio losses momentum in the late center section of 4 and he knew it when it happened. Just a damn shame. Both great drivers though, I will admit

[ThreeRiversRC]

Cool finish.

[dysfac]

its like 80s or early 90s f1 haha such primitive technology

[8188ify]

@dysfac technology is a detail... The important is a emotion from competition...

NASCAR IS A CIRCUS!!! Formula One it's only tecnology, no sportscar...

[ervesti93]

Helio won for a thousand of a second, maybe more than that, but it was simply amazing!! Also the Three Wide during 94 to 96 laps was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[GTAracer24]

Closest Finish in IndyCar History.

[Spionsilver]

this aint photofinish

helio is on the line with his complete nose already...

how fucked up is this??whats the deal with the timing over there??you dont need the time you see he was first to cross it...

[frozenskipper]

everything like oval tracks are boring and stupid

[gamersed94]

better the nascar

[KINGCOOL420]

Helio won this. Even with instant replay IRL fucks it up. Boy, NASCAR and IRL can't do any shit right.

[MultiSpread]

Whats the top speed these cars do?

[jay18fan]

part of a race being really good, is having good commentators, this old guy sucks soooo badly, no enthusiasm at all. he commentates nascar races during the chase, i hate him he does not make races exciting, long live Darrell Waltrip!

[1ssi7h]

That guy says 'Race track'.... where is the race ?

[MultiSpread]

What go faster these or f1 cars? Also what are the engine specs?

[anthcybo]

@MultiSpread

Indy cars have higher straight line speed.

[coasterreal]

@anthcybo

Not so sure. F1 do not run with such low downforce setups either. I think an F1 with proper wings and engine simply retuned would run faster. With a F1 low downforce setup (which is like a medium setup on IRL car) they reach something like 225 at Monza I believe. BAR ran a modified F1 car with minimum downforce in a straight line speed test - 257mph.

[Norbi224466]

@MultiSpread f1 no doubt

[leo1fun]

@MultiSpread Indys have better top speed, but F1s can do laps faster, because the turning ability is better than the Indys.

[ReassuringSmile]

scott dixon's wife is hot

[era2817]

2:35 Lesbian?

[rccardude04]

Anyone else hear the ear-piercing noise that makes it sound like it was videotaped from a tube TV?

[RainbowRadium]

@rccardude04 Doesn't matter, The cars still sound nice as hell. (:

[Solace2]

Most talented and diverse field in motorsports...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[mikegokart7]

Awsome race, who first love indycars, they look cool

[mbhmob]

Im not a huge indycar fan but surely this is what racing is about. 2 guys battling it out at the front and a close finish. Who cares if its just ovals? If it was easy, everyone would win a race and a championship.

[manu1993934]

hello!!.i'm italian and in italy there is formula 1...how many mp/h or km/h go indycar?

[THEkingjaymz]

@manu1993934 At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indycar qualifies at around 226 MPH and race at around 218 (more fuel = less speed). I think they race at around 212 at this track on the video (Chicagoland).

[jonathanstensberg]

@manu1993934 currently they are able to go about 230mph on a good qualifying day. back in 1998 the CART cars at the Michigan 500 qualified at over 250 mph.

[Nascar93fan]

Scott's wife Emma is pretty. Scott is a lucky guy.

[sportsdud22]

wow sad victory lane celebration he though he just won the race and he won the championship and he acts like it was nothing

[supercar97]

didnt helipo win that

[jammydodgerman]

my ears are bleeding from that high pitched cathode ray tube sound

[hyperacti]

that high-pitch noise is a turnoff

[PeterMayer]

@hyperacti high pitched? It's mid rangey. What a bore.

[detibry]

if i was the dude in second i'ld be fucking pissed. one million gone in one millisecond

[Sokra01]

@detibry

Don´t bother. At Wall-Street they experience that every day.

[BrianRichterWWE]

all the chicagoland videos i´ve seen, there is always a close finish, a coincidence?

[MurphyMonster]

@BrianRichterWWE Well, whenever you are at a track were its foot on the floor for 300 miles, there isnt much you can do to make a complete pass on the guy. Thats why Indy at Chicago and Michigan is some of the best racing on Earth.

[jimmiesdrivefor5]

lol he said castrodixon

[NASCARWWEclubpenguin]

If Castroneves won this race(which i believe he was supposed to win) he would win the championship too?

[jimmiesdrivefor5]

@NASCARWWEclubpenguin thts what i thought

[ReassuringSmile]

Scott Dixon's wife is gorgeous, hes a lucky bastard AYE!!!!!

[gablez1999]

great race great finish

[Robert265283]

what...the Target Guy is not first place he is in second place. So, Team Penske is first place. wake up look again picture he got nose finish.

[Mattletic]

@Robert265283 the description explains it all... Team Panske won the race (white) but Dixon (target) won the championship through points.

[Floxit72]

Indycar, what else ? :)

[josephlandsberg]

Indy Cars are fucking cool

[jjjones64]

Helio won what stupid scoring

[papertigers426]

yeah i agree with you, helio definitely crossed the line first...

[ashitfritter]

some people say motor racing is just cars going round and round. i usually dispute this, but this is literally that.. this looks insanely boring!!

[rhauri]

@ashitfritter Its pap isn't it... its because Americans get confused if the car goes out of sight!

[erasetoimprove]

@ashitfritter there's no such thing as a boring auto race..... except honestly I find F1 to be quite lackluster since the mid 90s. There's like only 20 passes a race it seems like... doesn't matter that they're on challenging race tracks when you never see much passing on the track.

[wildfast88]

sooooo who won da championship?

[roby70juve]

corse per minkiuni i fitenti..

babbazzi...

[counterman32]

Ever since i started playing Forza Motorsport 3 i got interested in motorsports.I was wondering when does the Indycar season start . Also when does the F1 season start as well and on what channel?

[therealmelu]

f1 starts in march, if you are american or not situated in europe you have to see it on satellitar channels, for the indycar i dont know sorry

[renegar6]

IRL starts March 14 at the Streets of Sao Paulo. Five races will be on ESPN and seven will be on Versus.

[sineater58]

@counterman32 usually F1 is on the speed channel. Indy car is on versus most the time

[mikegokart7]

2nd closest finish in indycar

[roby70juve]

ma che azz di corsa è questa...

mi sembrano dei vagoni di un treno , messi in fila...

aahahhaahhaahh

ma va fan zuuuumme

[Disneydanny]

so they actually both won kinda

[villy27]

No, Helio crossed the line first. So he won....

[slimba98]

this race i saw last year angered me when i saw the replays, helio won! not dixon.

[hamiltonlegend24]

so boring what skill do you need to be an indy car driver. i love how they refer to the bankings as turns lol

[cheshiredancer]

The race was originally given to Dixon by what would have been a closest winning margin of 0.0010 seconds, but the result was changed following a review......How gutted must he have been LOL

[jgilly1994]

this isnt a bad sport tbh

but f1 is better

this involves no breaking or sharp cornering

still good tho

[angrygiant8]

apparently you didnt know they race on road courses as well..

[jgilly1994]

because i dont really watch it

prefer f1

[stingray1534]

ya penske won the race i dont fuking get it at all

[weallfollowmanutd]

Real Indycar would be cars that dont look like legosets, turbocharged V8s, burn Tony George, different engine manufacturers, Firestone and Bridgestone tyres, champcar/cart based chassis.

[nowy5]

better than F1? ha ha ha!!

it is boring

[Joedidyjoe]

Lol.

American Motorsport cant even work out who won a race.

[Millennium9000]

better than F1

[roby70juve]

look F1 video

[Nightmare200X]

errr its F1

[milesjohnmabynross]

Scott You are the man, congratulations from New Zealand!

[weallfollowmanutd]

You can do 1000 finishes like this in row. Its still not as a good as it used to be. Bring back real indycar! These cars are shite and you can tell when the series is fucked up when Castrated Neves is a top driver!

[GoodEvenings]

WTF? Team Target won, but on the photo finish Penske clearly won that.

[hendrixfan805]

plz tell me this was an experiment and indy isnt going to race in a friggen BOWL TOO LIKE REDNECK NAS CAR!!!!!!!

[mikegokart7]

wat is wron the that 2thermal guy, he sucks

[clyrenternal]

Wow how exciting... watching two cars go in endless circles. Almost as crap as nascar

[FatCDTrans]

do these efffffing announcers ever shut the

hell up

[lawalterallen29]

At 2:37, did those girls kiss?

[2thermal]

yep looks like they do, WARNING INDY CAR RACING CAN TURN GIRLS GAY!!!! :D

[lawalterallen29]

LOL so funny! :P

[moha1239]

dam that was tttooooo close dam

[mattgotowned]

dixon just lost, not... 10 minutes ago. in another close finish, i think they said the, what? 4th closest in IRL history. it was a good race.

[sportsdud22]

wow that victory lane celebration was weak

[airbusandmustang]

Team Penske won. They got it wrong.

[Brantoc]

I guess they need to up the frequency of the signal.. I don't know what it is now, maybe 24khz or 24,000 updates a second. Seems fast, but they were closer than that. How about a 5.8Ghz signal? 5.8 billion cycles a second. Not going faster than that I hope.

[Pele10048]

wtf the white car won

[netbrazil]

CE FODEO, HELIO GANHOU, HELIO WINS

[HappyTreeFriends247]

when i was there we were going crazy because we did not know who won

[cybershot102]

awesome i was there too

[Colddeed]

It looked pretty obvious to me that Helio won the race.

[10Turan10]

WTF

[Nintenfan3424]

Yeah it was so close they had a tracking errorso that is why it says dixon won

[corianll]

wtf helio won just look at the wheels when they pass the line

helio rocks

[gokb18]

great finish but commentating at finish really sucked

[dinfg6]

Paul Page should go back to the IRL I know.

[48NascarAddict]

but then he couldnt announce NHRA

[malcolmyoungi]

that commentating was beyond terrible

[x24xrockzx24x]

carstronevis won dixon lost jus look at the finish

[trampolineman124]

i thought the red and white car won on the photo finish!

[dgwbigd]

wow...way to not call the end of the race.

[ParagonB]

I'm sure he was thanking Briscoe. by tucking in behind Castroneves, he created just enough draft down the straight to push the 3 car across first.

[jseven03]

i was at this race....i have small video on my channel...come look at it!!!

[cybershot102]

i was at tis race too i was so confused at what happened lol

[guidocampanella]

here Helio was great. the biggest one.

[XXformula]

Oh and i almost forgot...Marty Reid is the worst commentator ever, my fucking dog knows more about racing than he does....I really miss Paul Page. Although old Paul does do a good job calling the NHRA drag races now on ESPN 2, i still wish he did open wheel!

[XXformula]

Chicagoland, Texas Motor Speedway, and Indianapolis are the only exciting ovals left on the schedual now that they don't race at Michigan International Speedway or Fontana..i guess Homestead is ok too...but the other ovals are horrible

[ayrtonsenna1960]

Im a massive f1 fist. But have so much respect for IRL oval racing is harder then you think, you really have to have a good mind and use the art of drafting.

Indy car remind me of a era when racing used to be a true battle ground nothing like 230mph wheel to wheel to test a driver mind.

[mikegokart7]

indycar is so much better than nascar and f1. i am talking to all you losers who love nascar and or f1. When was the last time you saw a photo finish in nascar or f1NEVER!!!!!

[dinfg6]

The Problem is Most of the good drivers in indy car racing get traded for NASCAR after their best IRL Season ever. IRL is just being used as a stepping stone for NASCAR and F1. I noticed F1 is follow the leader style racing now. Nascar on occasions do have close races. Indy cars used to be the destination for racing.

[lympog]

Actually I don't think a single driver has ever gone from the IRL to F1.

[kornhead44]

Montoya...

[lympog]

Montoya was in CART, but I get what you're saying.

In all fairness to JPM though, he had an outstanding contract with Williams for sometime before he was in F1 and they decided to act upon it at that time.

[kornhead44]

I'm from Europe so I'm not following Indy Car sooo closely... got confused (Indy, CART). There also was Mario Andretti, but he didn't much in F1... On the other hand there was Nigel Mansell going from F1 to CART Indy in 1993 and winning it. We'll see what USF1 can do next year... Greetings!

[lympog]

Andretti was in Indycar (then USAC National Championship) before he went to F1, but Andretti did OK when he got to F1

;)

[dinfg6]

Youre Right it Was Champ Car drivers that went to F1 After their season in the other series was over.

[JoshuaJohnKnight]

Sebastien Bourdais drove in the 2002 INDY 500, a IRL sanctioned event

[Sansansone8574]

last good nascar finish was 2003 southern 500 at darlongton

[nsc337]

2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was a photo finish dumbass. two one thousands of a second. that is a photo finish so i suggest you get your information straight before typing out stupid shit.

[kiwiboyjake3]

he should go to f1

[ruhroh999]

hes is good at making 200 left turns ina race but he isnt the best in road courses so, he wouldnt make a good F1 driver.

[khrisinfo]

Chicagoland rock.

[mightycowhero]

people need to stop dumping irl. i'm talking to you f1 fans. say what you want about indy cars and oval racing, at least you can PASS on an oval. when was the last time f1 had a photo finish? certainly not in this era. the reason why qualifying is so important in f1 is because you can't pass! whoever gets out front stays out front throughout the entire race. no lead changes. i used to love f1 but i stopped watching it after Ferrari and schumacher destroyed all forms of competition.

[tommykl]

actually the last photo finish was in '02

[greatassistant]

idiots... i could see perfectly that Helio won... the outside of turn 4 aways gives more momentum ... and Briscoe was drafting helio witch makes him even more fast... by the way... the end of this broadcasting was ridiculous... they even show helio in the victory circle... on the nascar nationwide espn/abc stays about a half hour doing interviews and stuff after the race.. in the indycar broadcast they doesn't show nothing... the indy broadcast needs to change!

[fordwrc2006]

I wish I lived in America, Indycar is Ace, would love to go to a race.

[tomio145]

the all american sport ... every car, engine built in britian lol

[Tactical300]

and the Engines are branded by a Japanese motor company and chassis built in Italy.

Tony George needs to take a think about all this.

[tomio145]

You carnt realy call aload of steel an engine or a chassis only parts.

[Tactical300]

I don't see where I did.

Honda brands the engines ==> Japanese Company (designed/manufactured/assembl­ed in cooperation with Ilmor)

Dallara constructs the carbon-tub ==> Italian Company last I checked.

[tomio145]

your lieing then

[Tactical300]

Lieing? What am I lieing about? If there's something wrong with what I posted, let me know and quote your valid source. I'm all eyes and ears if I'm wrong about something.

[tomio145]

I'm not arguing with some aggressive yank over the internet. You are wrong.

[mccrossen1]

I pooed my pants.

[joeyrizzo0419]

Dallara chassis are made about two blocks from IMS.

[minonkracer]

No their not, they are made in Italy. Dallara is an Italian company. The teams buy the chassis and they get shiped to the factorys.